JP2000194914A - Automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the illumination effect of commodity sales operating parts by projectingly providing the commodity sales operating parts in the front of a door having a commodity exhibition chamber and lighting up the commodity sale operating parts with an external illuminator of the commodity exhibition chamber. SOLUTION: The commodity exhibition chamber where sample commodities are exhibited and displayed are provided in the front of a door 2 provided in the front of a machine body 1. Commodity sales operating parts 10 provided with a cover 11 are arranged in the left and right center parts on the front lower haft side of the door 2. An external illuminator 20 is arranged on the top plate surface 1a of the upper part of the body 1, and the illumination light L of a fluorescent lamp 21 is made to turned downward to light up the front of the body 2. The position of the fluorescent lamp 21 to the parts 10 can be arranged by sliding a slider 22 supported by a guide rail 23 in a pulling back and forth direction with the driving of a driving motor 24 and a driving belt 25.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vending machine used for selling, for example, canned coffee or juice, and more particularly to a vending machine in which the lighting structure of the machine is devised. Things.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, vending machines installed outdoors have
It is expected that the illumination light used to illuminate the product exhibition room and the signboard illumination section in front of the fuselage door will also play a role as a street light in a night city.

Conventionally, in this type of vending machine, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. HEI 6-187551 (prior art 1), a lighting device is fixed to an upper part of a door on the front of the body in an eaves-like manner. Alternatively, as disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 6-33272 (Prior Art 2), an illumination device is provided so as to extend in an eaves-like manner so as to be able to be drawn out in the front-rear direction, and irradiation light from the illumination device is exposed to a door. There is a configuration in which the display effect of a product is improved by enabling illumination from the outside toward a product display room on the front side, and the customer's willingness to purchase the product is enhanced.

Conventionally, as disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 6-33272 (Prior Art 3), products displayed in a plurality of upper and lower tiers in a product display room in front of a door of an airframe are arranged from an upper tier to a lower tier. Place it so that it faces upward,
By making it possible to illuminate all the products from the upper side to the lower side of the product exhibition room with uniform brightness from the outside with the irradiation light radiated through the transparent panel from the illuminator provided above the door on the front of the aircraft, Some devices have a configuration in which a lighting effect is enhanced.

[0005]

However, in the vending machines described in the prior arts 1 to 3, the lighting effect of the products displayed in the product display room in front of the door of the machine is simply enhanced. It's just something.

In addition, a cash slot such as a bill slot and a coin slot, a cash slot operating section such as a coin return lever, and a product sales operating section such as a lever operating section are arranged substantially flush with the front of the door. For this reason, external lighting has a limit in brightness, does not provide a sufficient amount of light, and is darker than a product exhibition room, so that it is inconvenient at night.

[0007] Further, even when such a product sales operation unit uses, for example, light leaked from a product exhibition room or minute light due to blinking of a light emitting diode (LED) for illumination, most operations rely on feeling. It is currently being carried out.

[0008] The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is a vending machine capable of enhancing not only the illumination of a product displayed in a product display room, but also the lighting effect of a product sales operation unit. The purpose is to provide.

[0009]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a vending machine according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the invention according to the first aspect, a door having a commodity display room on the front of the body can be opened and closed. The product sales operation unit is provided so as to protrude from the front of the door, and the product sales operation unit can be illuminated by an external lighting device of a product display room provided in the body. .

[0010] According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the merchandise selling operation section is disposed at the lower half left and right central portion of the front surface of the door, and its surface operation surface section is vertically arranged. It is characterized by being bulged in an arc along the shape.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, the illuminating body of the external illuminating device is provided at an upper portion of the body so as to be freely adjustable.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first, second or third aspect of the present invention, the illuminating body of the external illumination device is provided so as to be vertically movable.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the first, second or third aspect of the present invention, the illuminating body of the external lighting device is provided on both right and left sides of the body.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the first, second or fifth aspect of the present invention, the illuminating body of the external lighting device is provided on the upper part of the body so as to be tiltable and rotatable forward. It is characterized by.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the sixth aspect of the invention, the external lighting device comprises an illuminated signboard illuminated by an illuminating body.

That is, according to the vending machine of the present invention, the product sales operation section is provided to protrude from the front of the door having the product exhibition room, and the product sales operation section is provided outside the product exhibition room provided on the body. In order to be able to irradiate with lighting equipment,
The merchandise sales operation unit is brightly illuminated together with the illumination of the merchandise in the merchandise exhibition room, thereby making it possible to easily perform a money input operation and an merchandise selection operation.

[0017]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIGS. 1 to 4 show a first embodiment of a vending machine according to the present invention. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a body, and 2 denotes a door provided on the front surface of the body 1 so as to be openable and closable. On the front of this door 2,
A product display room 3 in which sample products are displayed is provided. The product display room 3 includes a product display shelf 4 composed of a holder capable of holding various sample products in a plurality of upper and lower stages, and a product display shelf 4. And a transparent panel 5 to cover.

In the lower left and right central portions of the front of the door 2,
A product sales operation unit 10 is arranged, and this product sales operation unit 1
Numeral 0 is provided with a vertically long cover 11 and the surface operation surface portion 11a of the cover 11 is formed to protrude forward by making it bulge out in an arc shape along the vertical direction. Have a form.

The surface operation surface 11a of the cover 11
In the upper part of the coin, there are arranged a money insertion slot 12 composed of bill insertion slots 12A and 12B, a coin return lever section 13, an insertion amount display section 14, and a commodity selection button 15 operated by a ten-key pad. A product take-out port 16 and a change return port 17 are arranged at a substantially intermediate portion.

On the other hand, on the top surface 1a of the upper part of the fuselage 1,
An external lighting device 20 is disposed, and the external lighting device 20
Has a fluorescent lamp 21 extending horizontally in the left-right direction of the body 1 as an illuminating body, a slider 22 for supporting the fluorescent lamp 21 in a T-shape, and a guide rail 23 for slidably supporting the slider 22. The slider 22 is slidable in the front-rear pull-out direction X by driving a drive motor 24 and a drive belt 25 built in the guide rail 23.

That is, the fluorescent lamp 21 of the external lighting device 20
When lit, the irradiation light L is emitted downward to illuminate the front surface of the door 2 and, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the slider 22 supported on the guide rail 23 Is slidable in the front-rear pull-out direction X by the driving of the drive motor 24 and the drive belt 25, so that the pull-out can be adjusted. The position of the light source can be adjusted with respect to the product sales operation section 10 disposed in the section, and a sufficient amount of light can be obtained.

In this case, when the customer stands in front of the door 2, the adjustment of the drawer of the external lighting device 20 is automatically performed by a signal from a sensing sensor (not shown) installed on the front surface of the door 2. Is controlled to automatically return to the original standby position when the user leaves from in front of the door 2, but it can also be performed manually.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show a vending machine according to a second embodiment of the present invention. The external lighting device 20 according to the first embodiment is provided with a pantograph type lift-up mechanism 26. The lift-up mechanism 26 allows the external lighting device 20 to be freely raised and lowered so that the vertical illumination Y can be adjusted according to, for example, the height of the customer.

In this case, when the customer stands in front of the door 2 in the same manner as the drawer adjustment described above, a signal from a sensor (not shown) installed on the front surface of the door 2 is used to raise and lower the external lighting device 20. Automatically when the customer leaves from the front of the door 2, and is automatically controlled to return to the original standby position. However, it is also possible to perform the manual operation.

FIGS. 7 to 11 show a third embodiment of the vending machine according to the present invention. As shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, the external lighting device 30 according to the third embodiment includes:
It has the form of a box-shaped illuminated signboard 31. This illuminated signboard 31 has a pair of left and right brackets 32, 32 and shafts 33, 33 on the front end side on the top surface 1 a of the upper part of the body 1.
The signboard surface 31a on the front side of the support member is pivotally supported in the tilting direction Z toward the front, and the signboard surface 31a on the front side has a form in which the center upper portion is formed to protrude in a semicircular shape, and is installed inside. It is configured to be illuminated by a fluorescent lamp 34 as an illuminating body.

That is, the external lighting device 30 is usually located on the top plate surface 1a of the body 1 so that the signboard surface 31a of the illuminated signboard 31 is in an upright state. As shown, the signboard surface 31a of the illuminated signboard 31 is tilted and rotated by 90 degrees so as to protrude downward in front of the body 1.

In this case, when the customer stands in front of the door 2, a drive motor (not shown) is rotated by a signal from a sensor (not shown) installed on the front of the door 2 when the customer stands in front of the door 2. When the customer leaves the front of the door 2, it is controlled to automatically return to the original standby position. On the signboard surface 31a of the illuminated signboard 31, for example, a maker name, a product name, and the like are displayed, and usually, the original advertising effect is enhanced.

In each of the above embodiments, the airframe 1
If there is no room for the installation space for the lighting device 20 or 30, the lighting device 20 as in the first embodiment is attached to the left and right sides of the fuselage 1 so that the front of the door 2 is Lighting is also possible.

It goes without saying that the present invention can be variously modified without departing from the scope of the present invention.

[0030]

As is apparent from the above description, the vending machine according to the present invention is provided with a door having a product display room at the front of the body so as to be openable and closable, and a product sales operation unit at the front of the door. And the product sales operation unit can be illuminated by the external lighting device of the product exhibition room provided in the body, so that the product sales operation unit is brightly illuminated together with the illumination of the products in the product exhibition room. This makes it possible to easily perform a money input operation and a product selection operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a first embodiment of a vending machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the same.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing a state in which the lighting device is drawn out.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state in which the lighting device is drawn out.

FIG. 5 is a side view of a lighting apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention in a lift-up state.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the lighting device in a lift-up state.

FIG. 7 is a front view showing a third embodiment of the vending machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a side view of the same.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the same.

FIG. 10 is a side view of the lighting device tilting and rotating forward.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the lighting device tilting forward in the same manner.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Airframe 1a Upper part (top plate surface) 2 Door 3 Product exhibition room 10 Product sales operation part 11 Cover 11a Surface operation surface part 12 Money insertion part 12A Banknote insertion part 12B Coin insertion part 13 Coin return lever part 14 Display of inserted amount Unit 15 Product selection button 16 Product outlet 17 Change return port 20 External lighting device 21 Illumination body (fluorescent lamp) 22 Slider 23 Guide rail 24 Drive motor 25 Drive belt 26 Lift-up mechanism 30 External lighting device 31 Illuminated signboard 31a Signboard surface 32 Bracket 33 Axis 34 Illumination body (fluorescent lamp) L Irradiation light X Front / rear drawing direction Y Vertical height direction Z Tilt direction

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Claims (7)

[Claims] A door having a product display room is provided on the front of the body so as to be openable and closable, and a product sales operation section is provided on the front of the door so as to protrude, and the product sales operation section is provided on the body. A vending machine, which can be illuminated by an external lighting device in the product exhibition room. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the merchandise selling operation section is disposed at a lower left and right central portion of a front surface of the door, and the surface operation surface section is bulged in an arc shape along a vertical direction. Item 5. The vending machine according to Item 1. 3. The vending machine according to claim 1, wherein an illuminating body of the external illuminating device is provided at an upper portion of the body so as to be adjustable. 4. The vending machine according to claim 1, wherein an illuminating body of the external illuminating device is provided so as to be vertically movable. 5. The illuminating body of the external illuminating device is provided on both right and left sides of the body.
The vending machine according to 3 or 4. 6. A vending machine according to claim 1, wherein an illuminating body of said external illuminating device is provided on an upper part of said body so as to be tiltable and rotatable forward. 7. The vending machine according to claim 6, wherein said external lighting device comprises an illuminated signboard illuminated by an illuminating body.